Meeting the creators of Adult Swim’s perennial late night favorite, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is almost as strange as seeing the show for the first time. CEO Scott Fry, VP of production Craig Hartin and animation director Todd Redner apply the type of consistent, dedicated deadpan that can only come with a decade of shared life experience. Clearly intelligent and antisocial in equal measure, this trio made for one of the most interesting, and infuriating interviews I have ever conducted.

Read on for the audio and an explanation of the madness.

A quick note before I give you the bullet points of the interview. As you will no doubt notice as the audio begins, I sound like a totally unprofessional dweeb. This is only half my fault. The interview time and place changed three times the day of and as a result I was a bit harried by the time I made it to the final location. When I asked my first question, a fairly simple intro designed to get everyone to describe their basic job, I was met with a deer in headlights stare that made me panic and think that I had just come to the wrong interview. After a few moments of speaking to the trio, I began to realize that this was just how things get done around William’s Street Productions. None of the three seemed the least bit interested in actually answering any of my questions, instead they would dance around the point engaging in long and detailed tangents that, when listened to after the fact, actually work well to illuminate exactly how shows like Squidbillies, 12 Ounce Mouse, and Perfect Hair Forever came to be.

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